Further RevCon National Papers

Many more of the national papers submitted to the Second CWC Review Conference have now been posted on the OPCW website, including four from China and four from Switzerland. Among the Swiss papers is RC-2/NAT.12 on “Riot Control Agents and Incapacitating Agents under the Chemical Weapons Convention”, the first time this issue has been raised [...]

Dando on the RevCon

The web edition of the Bulletin of the Atomic Scientists has a column on the Second CWC Review Conference by Malcolm Dando of the University of Bradford. In the article, “Missed opportunities at the chemical weapons treaty meeting”, Dando focuses on the lack of attention paid by the RevCon to the issue of incapacitating chemical [...]

UK House of Lords: Clarification of RevCon Answer

I posted a while ago about the 18 March debate in the House of Lords on the Second CWC Review Conference. In that post I pointed out the sightly strange answer that the Minister, Lord Malloch-Brown gave in response to a question from Lord Walton of Detchant. Well, it transpires that the answer was indeed [...]

RevCon analysis article

In double-quick time exactly one month to the day since the Second CWC Review Conference started, here’s the first published analysis of the RevCon. Oliver Meier of the Arms Control Association has written a great article in this month’s issue of Arms Control Today replete with interesting quotes from diplomats involved in the RevCon. In [...]